To be honest, I hate silence.
When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.
I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.
When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
I don't get any dates; that's the thing.
Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.
I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.
Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
I didn't choose solitude.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn't have any friends, and I wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.
